HOUSE BILL No. 4876


     September 28, 1999, Introduced by Reps. Howell, Richner, Julian, Caul, Gosselin, Bishop,
Mortimer, Patterson, Birkholz, Allen, Rivet, Scranton and Raczkowski and referred to the
Committee on Criminal Law and Corrections.


        A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled

   "The Michigan penal code,"

   (MCL 750.1 to 750.568) by adding section 506b.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         SEC. 506B.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS ACT,

 2    THE COURT MAY ORDER AN INDIVIDUAL CONVICTED OF COMMITTING A VIO-

 3    LATION OF THIS ACT IN WHICH AN INDIVIDUAL LESS THAN 18 YEARS OF

 4    AGE IS A VICTIM OF THAT VIOLATION TO PAY NOT MORE THAN TWICE THE

 5    FINE OTHERWISE AUTHORIZED FOR THAT VIOLATION.  HOWEVER, IF THE

 6    VIOLATION IS PUNISHABLE BY A MINIMUM FINE, THE COURT SHALL ORDER

 7    THE INDIVIDUAL TO PAY AT LEAST TWICE THAT MINIMUM FINE AND MAY

 8    ORDER THE INDIVIDUAL TO PAY NOT MORE THAN TWICE THE MAXIMUM FINE

 9    OTHERWISE AUTHORIZED FOR THAT VIOLATION.






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 1         Enacting section 1.  This section applies to crimes

 2    committed on or after the effective date of the amendatory act

 3    that added this section.


















































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